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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Surveillance video by Friant Roulette captured a car zooming down Shepherd Avenue and launching into a metropolis gait adjacent Woodward Park.
The clang happened astatine 2 a.m. astatine the Friant and Shepherd intersection.
Friant Roulette's video captured the conveyance flying into the aerial and crashing into parked cars. Fresno Police said the car burst into flames seconds aft the crash. Police said the operator died astatine the scene.
The intersection is nary alien to deadly crashes. Back successful 2023, a tow motortruck ran the reddish airy astatine the aforesaid intersection, sidesplitting the driver, 22-year-old Amaya Chenot of Fresno.
A justice sentenced 53-year-old John Ashcroft to six years successful situation connected charges of gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated, DUI, and failing to halt astatine a reddish light.
Fresno City Councilmember Nick Richardson said he's been actively moving with constabulary to forestall much crashes.
"Speeding, moving reddish lights, drinking portion driving, making amerciable turns is not going to beryllium tolerated because, arsenic we've seen, it is actively, actively, putting successful jeopardy the information of our community," helium said.
He said making the unsafe intersection safer is simply a priority.
"I committedness I volition beryllium doing, from a metropolis standpoint, everything that we tin to marque definite that we're maximizing the information engineering, realistic and sensical projects," Richardson said.
